Count William of Surrey

Count William of Surrey (1071-11 May 1138) was the son of William de Warenne and was the Earl of Surrey in England.

Biography
William was born in 1071 to William de Warenne and Countess Gundred of Surrey, and he was from the House of Warenne, a dynasty of Catholic Normans. William's father was a companion of William the Conqueror in his 1066 invasion of England that gained him the throne, and his father was the first earl of Surrey. The younger William, like many Norman lords, backed Robert of Normandy's rebellion against Henry I of England, invading England in 1101 and fighting at the Battle of Tinchebray in 1106. In 1119 he fought at the Battle of Bremule against Louis VI of France, a decisive Norman victory. William later submitted to King Henry, and he became an ally of the House of Normandy's English branch. He was one of the Norman loyalists that resisted Stephen of Blois' claim to the throne, and he pressed forwards Gilbert de Normandie's claim to the throne.